Monday, August 30, 2010

Erekat: Israeli religious figure urging genocide of Palestinians

Well by Israeli logic then the Palestinians have every right to attack the Israelis in a pre-emptive attack to defend themselves from this genocidal power, no? I'm joking, but unfortunately Israeli foreign policy as well as our own sometimes seems like the bigger joke. I think this new statement invites comparison to when Ahmadinejad said "This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

Netanyahu distances himself from remarks by Shas spiritual leader who said earlier that all Palestinians should perish.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Sunday slammed remarks by the spiritual leader of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox party, who said the Palestinians should "perish", saying that it was paramount to incitement to genocide...